Friday the 13th

I went to see this movie on Friday the 13th. Lets just say that in the first oh...10min of the movie you see....5 people get killed each in a different way, a pair of breasts, a sex scene, a forest of marijuana plants, and one ugly killer. Then the credits roll.

As the movie continues, they do lengthen out the next set of killings but it stays true to the Jason mantra. A set of high school to college age kids, made up of scantly clothed girls and pot smoking college guys, that all get killed.

If you enjoy Jason movies I think you will like this one.

GNS3 0.6 Beta

GNS3 0.6 beta came out a few days ago.  Pretty stoked, not a great deal of feature adds...except for a few new features.  One of the best of these and something I have been waiting for is the ability to view the interfaces on the diagram.  Just like in Visio you can now see your interface names right on the screen.  There are a few more front end tweaks but other than that its still the same great open source software.

Don't forget to check out GNS3 Labs for the future stuff and workable labs.

Nights in Rodanthe

Rant

Yes, I saw Nights in Rodanthe...I can admit that I saw yet another chick flick. What makes it better I saw the movie with my wife...so I can at least say I didn't go alone.

Review

The movie itself was pretty good. Diane Lane and Richard Gere are excellent actors and have impeccable chemistry on screen. The movie is based off of the Nicholas Sparks novel "Nights in Rodanthe". This is the same author who wrote the "NoteBook", as well as several other chick books that were made into movies.

Surprisingly enough I was satisfied with the movie. The plot is enough to keep you interested and everyone crying around you, to make you feel a little weird that your the only one not.

Go take a lady friend, your wife to see this movie...The after affects are well worth it :).

Amazon MP3 for Linux

Tonight I was looking up some music on amazon.com, I wanted to buy some music, which normally means I have to load up my Windows VM for the amazonmp3 down loader software.

To my surprise when I went to the page, Amazon had Linux versions of the down loader software. Finally a company that recognizes another OS is out there.

Kudos to you Amazon.

I had a little trouble with getting the rpm installed on my Fedora9 box.

This site helped me out: fedoraforum.org

Here are the commands from the website if you don't want to go there:

Super thanks to GoneSouth on the fedoraforums for posting this:

1. download the fedora 8 rpm (amazonmp3.rpm) from the amazon site
2. cd to your download dir
3. su -c 'rpm -i --nodeps amazonmp3.rpm' (this tells rpm to ignore dependencies)
4. cd /lib
5. su -c 'ln -s libssl.so.7 libssl.so.6'
6. su -c 'ln -s libcrypto.so.7 libcrypto.so.6'

The last two steps just soft link the .7 version of the libraries that come with F9, to the .6 file names that amazonmp3 is looking for. You should now be able to download amazon mp3s on your F9 install. Cheers !

Hope you guys enjoy the Amazon down loader as much as I did.

Moving to gOS 2.9

Ubuntu 8.04 is great...but I love to try distros that are new and doing different things. Yes, gOS 2.9 is based on Ubuntu 7.10. So under the hood there is much of difference, but in this case its on the outside that counts.

gOS 2.9 is the "Space" upgrade to gOS 2.0 Rocket. Instead of Enlightment this time they go with Gnome and the Avant Dock Bar.

I will be installing on the trusted Dell 9300 1.6 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB HD, 128 MB Ati Radeon Mobile. We will see if she can handle it.

I will also be redoing my Desktop Compaq 1.5 Ghz 1.25 GB RAM, 40 GB HD, 128 MB Ati.

Ubuntu 8.04...Good Stuff

Ubuntu 8.04 just came out and I am so stoked. Been using it at home and can't wait to upgrade my work machine tomorrow.

Internet Down

Yeah, so I don't know how many people out there go through this but here is what happened to me. Sunday out of the blue at around noon my Internet connection went out. I called Comcast. They stated they would send someone out at the earliest convenience which would be on Tuesday.

I write this not because they didn't fix the issue but if at my work if we didn't fix an outage like this in 3 days, I would be fired. Not to mention millions upon millions of dollars would stop flowing.

As the day approaches for AT&T to come into the Cable market I say to them....Welcome. Although I am not to sure how much better their service would be any way.